• Farm Hand’s Companion, an Online Companion to the Self-Sufficient Farm or Homestead. Youtube channel
• The Deliberate Agrarian
• Redeeming the Dirt
• Five Acres and a Dream
• Live Ready Now!
• On Just a Couple Acres
• North Country Farmer
• An American Homestead
• J & J Acres
• The Self Sufficient HomeAcre
• Backyard Farming Connection
• Countryside & Small Stock Journal
• New Life on a Homestead
• deborah jean’s DANDELION HOUSE and GARDEN
• Fresh Eggs Daily

Rick Falkvinge: When Authors Demand Payment For Every Copy, They Advocate Communism

• A study of active shooter incidents, 2000-2013.

• Le syndrome Shadok ou les failles du Renseignement francais
• how to beat islamic state (WSJ.com)

• Ursula Lindsey: The Ties That Bind Jihadists, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 30, 2015.
• Thomas Hegghammer: Why Terrorists Weep: The Socio-Cultural Practices of Jihadi Militants(pdf), Paul Wilkinson Memorial Lecture, University of St. Andrews, 16 April 2015.
• Robyn Creswell and Bernard Haykel: Why Jihadists Write Poetry, in The New Yorker, June 8, 2015.

H/t Dave Pell

Oui, Thoreau n’était pas si bien que cela.

Cody J. Crone, a.k.a. « Wranglerstar » (old FB – previous blog) is a modern homesteader and Youtube producer, from somewhere in North-West USA. One of those hard-working, God-fearing Americans who don’t rely on the State to protect their loved ones. A guy who would get a Hitachi EX 120 for his birthday. And before you ask, yes, he carries a weapon at all times. I find him (and his small familly of Ms. Wranglersar & Jack) far less obsessed with safety devices (« the Nanny State ») and hard-core survivalism than many. An he’s the only on I know to make AR-15 accessories out of second-hand car parts. Back in 2011 he was building a forest retreat for which he built a timber frame cabin out of treesharvested on his own land, for which he built saw ponies. Cabin got stolen (!), and Cody but seems to have backed up (or became more discreete) from that project. He claims loud not to be an expert, and to re-discover ‘old ways’. Not everybody agrees with his ways but his video are motivational.

Cody has a hands-on approach to foresting, resilience, farmtips, ram pump, beehive, gardening,… And tools. He occasionally makes his own:

Check his other own-made tools: a rake (1, 2) and a bark spud (1, 2). « Is it perfect? No. But neither am I, so we make a good pair ». This, is modern homesteading. « Righty tighty lefty loose »! [x] « There is no such thing as a cheap bulldozer » [x]

…digital cameras have included a device that tracks the orientation of the camera and puts that information into the image file’s metadata. Applications that display images read that information and present the image rotated accordingly. The orientation information is expressed as an integer and written to a specific field in the EXIF metadata for the image. (…) Unfortunately, I happen to take a lot of photographs looking down, with the camera’s image sensor in a nearly horizontal plane. In this position, the orientation device–which presumably uses gravity to figure out which way is up–doesn’t have much to go on, and the value of the Orientation field is kind of a crapshoot. I think it reports the orientation the camera was in just before I pointed it down to take the picture. And that could be any orientation, because I never think about how I’m holding the camera before I’m ready to shoot.

Derotating JPEGs with exiftool by Dr. Drang

REISUB, yes.
But the important part is:

check the value of « /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq » file

Found here: Safely Reboot Ubuntu When « Freezes »
Almost as useful as

mount -o rw,remount /

Which I fond there:

Crédit photo : Paul-Henri De Le Rue – Source: Association pour la Défense et la Protection des Vallées Pyrénéennes de Saux et de La Gela

Dimanche 1er Février 2015: a Aulon, une avalanche soufflante a emporté plusieurs véhicules, dont un minibus retrouvé 300 m plus loin, et qui, surtout a détruit la bergerie-fromagerie d’Aline et Pascal Blanchard. Le couple s’en est miraculeusement sorti. En revanche, son cheptel a été décimé : 180 brebis et 3 vaches. Cela représente environ 15 t de carcasses. Tout le stock de fromage est également perdu… (La Depeche)

(via Philrando)